7.4 Pase defaults to UTF-8 CCSID 1208

Just something to keep in mind before you upgrade to IBM i 7.4 that the default Pase CCSID and locale changed to UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) from 819 as listed in the memo to users. This also means the Java file.encoding and default charset changed to UTF-8. Java applications with the JVM can explicitly set their preferred file.encoding several ways and the Pase default can also be reverted per job (which I struggled with) but that can add extra tedious and unnecessary tweaking. Instead, you may need to change your IFS file open() api for reading text files to include O_CCSID with 2 more parms of zeroes. Example:
Before:
"fd = open(<file>:O_RDONLY+O_TEXTDATA);"
After:
"fd = open(<file>:O_RDONLY+O_TEXTDATA+O_CCSID:0:0);"

The two zeroes at the end are required. The first zero is unused but the second 0 means use the job CCSID.
Though you can shorten the open() parms, this does not work with UTF-8 with CCSID 1208 with a double byte character set so the O_CCSID should always be used.

Thanks,
Craig